About Us

Hi, we’re Monica and Leonard, co-founders of Bee Balm. We’ve been friends for ten years: we both grew up with severe chapped, dry lips. Between the two of us we’ve pretty much tried every popular lip balm brand claiming to cure dry lips… from Burt’s Bees, EOS, Vaseline and countless others.

Nothing seemed to work for us, some even made our lips worse. So, 3 years ago we set out to create our own lip balm, for others like us who suffer with chapped lips. When we dove into the science behind lip balms, we realized a majority of companies are filling your lip balms with petroleum, PFAS, and other harmful ingredients because of how cheap it makes production. We wanted to be different and create a lip balm with a natural base that can heal cracked lips, but also include humectants to moisturize and prevent the cracks from making a comeback.

One day Kristen stumbled upon a k-beauty hack that was taking the internet by storm. Propolis in skincare. Studies had proven the benefits of propolis for its excellent wound-healing properties, but no one had popularized it for lip care. It’s healing properties make it the perfect solution to heal dry, cracked lips! We immediately started concocting our very own propolis base for lip balms. Bee Balm was born